7. 馬克?扎克伯格

公司名稱：Facebook

銷售額：37.1億美元

市值：750億–1,000億美元 (估計值)

員工人數：3,200

建議: 信奉偏執。

????等到今年5月馬克?扎克伯格慶祝28歲生日時，Facebook很可能已經上市，成為歷史上規模最大的IPO。外界期待已久的這次上市活動將造就數百位百萬富翁和一家估值近1,000億美元的網絡公司，而這位當年從哈佛大學（Harvard University）輟學的科技奇才也將成為同齡人中新一代的比爾?蓋茨。

????然而，這一切距離扎克伯格當初在哈佛大學宿舍里推出這個社交網站的時間僅僅只有短短八年。人們很容易將他的成功歸結于運氣和時機。那就大錯特錯了。幫助Facebook成為全球第一社交網站的是一個偏執的創業天才，他從硅谷另一位傳奇人物、英特爾（Intel）的安迪?格魯夫身上汲取了靈感。眾所周知，格魯夫常常宣稱的：“只有偏執狂才能生存”，而且他一直在用生命實踐這個箴言。

????扎克伯格是當今硅谷最偏執的企業家，事事絕不想當然。正是由于這個原因，他才得以不斷推動Facebook平臺的創新和調整，降低開發人員為這個網絡社區編寫應用軟件的門檻，同時確保每個新版本都領先于競爭對手。Facebook迄今為止還沒有在社交領域遭遇任何嚴重的挑戰，甚至行業巨頭谷歌去年發起的挑戰也不例外，而唯一最重要的原因也正在于此。

7. Mark Zuckerberg

Company: Facebook

Sales: $3.71 billion

MarketValue: $75 billion-$100 billion (estimate)

Employees: 3,200

Advice: Embrace paranoia.

????By the time Mark Zuckerberg celebrates his 28th birthday this May, Facebook will in all likelihood have gone public and become the biggest IPO of all time. The long-anticipated event will create hundreds of millionaires, result in a valuation of an Internet company that will approach $100 billion, and make the geek who dropped out of Harvard University his generation's Bill Gates.

????Yet it has been only eight years since the social-networking site was launched from Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard. It would be easy to chalk a good bit of his success to luck and timing. But that would be a serious mistake. What's helped make Facebook the world's dominant social network is an obsessive entrepreneurial genius who has taken a page from another of Silicon Valley's legendary denizens, Intel's Andy Grove, who famously stated -- and lived by -- the dictum that only the paranoid survive.

????Zuckerberg is the Valley's most paranoid entrepreneur these days, taking nothing for granted. It's why he has pushed out a constant flow of innovative changes to Facebook's platform, making it easier for developers to create applications for the community and ensuring that each new iteration keeps it ahead of the competition. It's the single most important explanation for why Facebook has yet to face any formidable rival in its space, including last year's challenge from heavyweight Google.